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Maklershed · Feb 29, 2012

Maklershed · Feb 29, 2012

Paperback:

The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven

Kindle:

It by Stephen King

thomaser · Feb 29, 2012

Right now, only a few lectures about the English language, and some shorter essays and speeches about minorities in the UK and USA.

My next non-study book will be one of these:

Don DeLillo: Underworld
Günther Grass: The Tin Drum
Hussain Haddawy: Sindbad and other stories from the Arabian Nights
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
Oscar Wilde: The Complete Works

Leaning towards The Tin Drum. Can't remember seeing it mentioned here on GAF. Has anyone here read it?

Salvadora · Feb 29, 2012

Reading Down Under by Bill Bryson,Its Very funny. I recommend everyone to read it/Short History of Nearly Everything.

f0rk · Feb 29, 2012

Dracula. It's interesting because I've realised I don't know what actually happens. I didn't even know it was going to switch perspectives.

Karakand · Feb 29, 2012

thomaser said:
Leaning towards The Tin Drum. Can't remember seeing it mentioned here on GAF. Has anyone here read it?

I bought it during the Borders liquidation for $5 but haven't read it. Let's BOOK CLUB.

Anticitizen One · Feb 29, 2012

Only 300 pages in

Grakl · Feb 29, 2012

Watership Down by Richard Adams
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Will probably finish these within the first half of the month.

Ceebs · Feb 29, 2012

It's not March yet!

I am about to start this after hearing nothing but fantastic stuff about it from some of my favorite author's twitter feeds. It's pretty much a reverse take on 9/11 with Americans flying planes into the World Trade towers in Baghdad, and the Arab nations launching a war on terror.

Maklershed · Feb 29, 2012

^ I keep seeing that on Amazon and have been very curious about it. Please post a review when you're finished.

And I'll post this in here since there were no responses in the other thread:

Maklershed said:
Any recommendations for Casablanca-esque books?

Zombie James · Feb 29, 2012

On a Crichton kick right now.

Salvadora · Feb 29, 2012

Zombie James said:
On a Crichton kick right now.

This was a big disappointment after JP.

DiscoShark · Feb 29, 2012

I've been running through all of asimov's works extremely quickly. Am reading Robots of Dawn at the moment. SciFi mystery all day.

stufte · Feb 29, 2012

The Hunger Games series. I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying these, actually.

Zombie James · Feb 29, 2012

Salvadora said:
This was a big disappointment after JP.

I'm reading them back to back, only a couple of chapters into Lost World.

The explanation of how Malcolm is still alive is really, really weak.

Salvadora · Mar 1, 2012

Zombie James said:
I'm reading them back to back, only a couple of chapters into Lost World.

The explanation of how Malcolm is still alive is really, really weak.

It gets worse.

grendelrt · Mar 1, 2012

drkOne · Mar 1, 2012

Taking a break from Fiction. If someone has a recommendation on what to read next, fire away, I do have Shantaram on my shelf if nothing else comes up.

commish · Mar 1, 2012

Reading Lies of Locke Lemora. Pretty good so far...

Bombadil · Mar 1, 2012

The Catcher in the Rye (just finished it)

Beowulf

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

MutantCyborg · Mar 1, 2012

I just decided I needed to read more, after suggestions from some friends I decided on these books. How'd I do? Which one should I start with?

Dresden · Mar 1, 2012

MutantCyborg said:
I just decided I needed to read more, after suggestions from some friends I decided on these books. How'd I do? Which one should I start with?

Don't recommend reading Silmarillion unless you're a big fan of the LOTR books, and even then, the other two offer a better time, imo.

Adam Blade · Mar 1, 2012

commish said:
Reading Lies of Locke Lemora. Pretty good so far...

Don't read the sequel.

Large Professor · Mar 1, 2012

MutantCyborg said:
I just decided I needed to read more, after suggestions from some friends I decided on these books. How'd I do? Which one should I start with?

I would suggest starting with Hyperion because it's awesome.

squidyj · Mar 1, 2012

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echoshifting · Mar 1, 2012

About 1/3rd of the way through

One of the most depressing books I've ever read. Really good though, incredible prose, though I'd expect nothing less from Oates.

Edmond Dantès · Mar 1, 2012

In honour of the Mysterious Cities of Gold and the new series (sequel) which starts in Spring.

BrokenFiction · Mar 1, 2012

Currently:

Also, this JUST ARRIVED *squee*:

And, reading at night with my 8 year old:

echoshifting · Mar 1, 2012

Large Professor said:
I would suggest starting with Hyperion because it's awesome.

My wife actually couldn't stand Hyperion so I've always avoided it. I've liked some of his other work though, so I dunno. Might just not be for her.

I can, however, heartily recommend "Man in the High Castle" for your first pick. I'll bet that's the fastest, smoothest read of the three, though admittedly I've only flipped through Hyperion a bit.

Put Silmarillion on your shelf and pick something else to join the first two.

sk3 · Mar 1, 2012

Game of Thrones! Trying to get through a couple books before season 2 starts. About 100 pages into it and wow it is exactly like the show.

It seems like Watchmen in which it follows so closely it makes the original material irrelevant.

echoshifting · Mar 1, 2012

sk3 said:
It seems like Watchmen in which it follows so closely it makes the original material irrelevant.

...

Just...keep reading.

I love the show but it isn't nearly as good as the book as far as I'm concerned, largely due to an inadequate budget for certain scenes and effects.

squidyj · Mar 1, 2012

sk3 said:
Game of Thrones! Trying to get through a couple books before season 2 starts. About 100 pages into it and wow it is exactly like the show.

It seems like Watchmen in which it follows so closely it makes the original material irrelevant.

Wait, you think the Watchmen movie makes the comic book irrelevant?

ThanksVision · Mar 1, 2012

Just finished this beauty. Thought it dragged in a few places, but I ended up getting a lot more out of it than I expected. 8th book this year. About to start Game of Thrones finally. Woo.

Erudite · Mar 1, 2012

Slowly (because of midterms, usually only get to read it on my 15-20 minute bus commute) but surely.

sk3 · Mar 1, 2012

squidyj said:
Wait, you think the Watchmen movie makes the comic book irrelevant?

Yes. I've heard that from other places, not just my own opinion. Normally when you get an adapted work, you can recommend the source material for a deeper understanding or even just a better story altogether. I read the comic after I saw the movie, I didn't feel like I got anything more from it.

Grakl · Mar 1, 2012

sk3 said:
Yes. I've heard that from other places, not just my own opinion. Normally when you get an adapted work, you can recommend the source material for a deeper understanding or even just a better story altogether. I read the comic after I saw the movie, I didn't feel like I got anything more from it.

I can't believe that you've said this.

maomaoIYP · Mar 1, 2012

Traced-Velocity said:
Slowly (because of midterms, usually only get to read it on my 15-20 minute bus commute) but surely.

This is an incredible book. I loved every minute of it.

I'm almost done with this:

Gonna move on to Catching Fire and Mockingjay before I start on A Feast for Crows. Hopefully by then it would be April, and A Dance with Dragons in paperback would be out.

bengraven · Mar 1, 2012

Still balls deep in old West research for my novel, which I know is going to end up having to be a series.

Already read The Ranchers, The Cowboys, and The Townsmen and it's on to this one:

The Gunfighters.

Arment · Mar 1, 2012

The first book ended predictably. The major plot points for the whole series are pretty much spoiled for me already so I'm just reading these to get to the Neverwinter series.

Arcteryx · Mar 1, 2012

Re-reading:
-The Diamond Age

New pickups:
-The Broken Sword (awesome book so far, was hard to find though)
-IQ84
-Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience

ItAintEasyBeinCheesy · Mar 1, 2012

Finished Ender's Game audiobook today, excellent book and the voice acting was spectacular. Didn't think I would dig Sci-Fi so much but I'm totally down.

Like what the author said at the end the difference between sci-fi and fantasy is Rivet's and Branches on the cover.

Cookie18 · Mar 1, 2012

The Art of War for my latest Politics essay, it's the first book I have read for Uni that I have enjoyed.

I'm also reading Bakuman (my first manga). I finished the first volume really quickly because it is so good. The second volume should arrive tomorrow and that is my bedtime reading for tomorrow sorted.

Movement · Mar 1, 2012

I'm halfway through Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. After that, on to Game of Thrones.

Mumei · Mar 1, 2012

Read The Battle of the Labyrinth, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and Habibi (amazing art). I started reading Unlikely Friendships for some dawwww fluff.

I might read Augustus after that.

Eaten By A Grue · Mar 1, 2012

The Drawing of Three: Dark Tower II

Hanzou · Mar 1, 2012

sk3 said:
Yes. I've heard that from other places, not just my own opinion. Normally when you get an adapted work, you can recommend the source material for a deeper understanding or even just a better story altogether. I read the comic after I saw the movie, I didn't feel like I got anything more from it.

this paragraph is pure madness.

Jintor · Mar 1, 2012

Needed a break from fiction/18th century english writers for a bit

Tesseract · Mar 1, 2012

david darling's the universal book of mathematics. i adore darling's opening:

"you are lost in a maze: how do you find your way out?
you want to build a time machine, but is time travel
logically possible? how can one infinity be bigger than
another? why can’t you drink from a klein bottle? what
is the biggest number in the world to have a proper
name, and how can you write it? who claimed he could
see in the fourth dimension? and what does “iteration”
mean? and what does “iteration” mean?"

squidyj · Mar 1, 2012

sk3 said:
Yes. I've heard that from other places, not just my own opinion. Normally when you get an adapted work, you can recommend the source material for a deeper understanding or even just a better story altogether. I read the comic after I saw the movie, I didn't feel like I got anything more from it.

So you got the same understanding of the characters from the movie as the comic? I think I need to go ly dow.

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